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Drug And Device Studies Being Withheld Illegally

Don McCanne | Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) | November 4, 2013

Randomized clinical trials are a critical means of advancing medical knowledge. Clinical trials depend on the willingness of participants to expose themselves to the risks of randomization, blinding, and unproven interventions. The ethical justification for these risks is that society will eventually benefit from the knowledge gained from the trial. [...] Read More »

EMRs Were Designed For Billing And Not Optimized For Patient Care

Margalit Gur-Arie | HIT Consultant | June 3, 2013

EMRs were designed for billing, so let’s unleash that power, instead of trying to convert them into something they cannot be at this point in time. Read More »

Epic In 2013 = AOL In 1999?

Matt Mattox | Axial Exchange | February 19, 2013

This is a good time to be a big EHR company. Health systems are willing to pay more than $100 million to have a new electronic health record system installed. The New York Times even fawned over the innovative prowess of Epic, which is arguably the most powerful EHR company on the planet. Read More »

Escaping The EHR Trap — The Future Of Health IT

Kenneth D. Mandl and Isaac S. Kohane | The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) | June 14, 2012

It is a widely accepted myth that medicine requires complex, highly specialized information-technology (IT) systems. This myth continues to justify soaring IT costs, burdensome physician workloads, and stagnation in innovation — while doctors become increasingly bound to documentation and communication products that are functionally decades behind those they use in their “civilian” life.
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Exchange Plans Hide Your True Financial Exposure

Don McCanne | Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) | November 5, 2013

[...] How much protection does health insurance offer and how can consumers know? Read More »

Experts Suggest NHS And US Health Care Systems Learn From Each Other

Staff Writer | TheInformationDaily.com | October 12, 2012

Medical experts from the USA and the UK have suggested in their Health Policy paper that the health care systems of both countries should share ideas. Read More »

Fate Of Health IT Is Not Tied To One Political Party

Dan Bowman | FierceHealthIT | November 12, 2012

Count me among those who don't believe that the health IT world would have come crashing to a halt had Mitt Romney won last week's presidential election. Although the former Massachusetts governor did promise to dismantle healthcare reform had he been elected, he made no such statements about the HITECH Act that mandates hospitals to use electronic health records in a meaningful way. Read More »

Federal Health Officials Call For New Quality Measurement Framework

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | June 6, 2013

Federal health officials are calling for a new framework in quality measurement, as the U.S. healthcare system prepares for what is hoped to be a new era of accountability. Read More »

First Teach No Harm

Phillip Longman | Washington Monthly | June 21, 2013

The U.S. spends $13 billion a year subsidizing graduate medical education. Yet almost all of this money winds up producing the wrong kinds of doctors in the wrong places, with America’s most elite teaching hospitals being the worst offenders. Read More »

For 10th Consecutive Year, HFHS Reports Financial Growth

Press Release | Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) | April 25, 2013

For the 10th consecutive year, Henry Ford Health System experienced positive revenue growth and net income in 2012. Read More »

For HIX Success, First Fix Government IT And Set Expectations

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | January 20, 2014

Health insurance exchanges should strive for several goals to prove their mettle and recover their public perception, according to the founding director of the Massachusetts Health Connector, an exchange that was once a national model and is now struggling to function. Read More »

Forget Obamacare: Vermont Wants To Bring Single Payer To America

Sarah Kliff | Vox | April 9, 2014

"If Vermont gets single-payer health care right, which I believe we will, other states will follow," Vermont Gov. Shumlin predicted in a recent interview. "If we screw it up, it will set back this effort for a long time.

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Ghosts In The Criminal Machine - How A Drug Company Can Plead Guilty To Federal Fraud, Yet No One Is Held Responsible

Roy M. Poses | Health Care Renewal | May 28, 2013

We have often discussed how leaders of health care organizations have become increasingly unaccountable for their actions. A recent, slightly obscure story shows how a corporate admission of guilt to a felony can be used to prevent anyone, including anyone in corporate management, from being held responsible for that fraud. Read More »

Government Taps Engineers From Google, Red Hat To Fix Healthcare.gov

Adrianne Jeffries | The Verge | October 31, 2013

The government has tapped engineers at Google, Oracle, and Red Hat, among other companies, to assist in untangling the problems with its online health insurance marketplace. The site, a key part of President Barack Obama's healthcare reform effort, has numerous bugs that have prevented Americans from signing up for health insurance...